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FIA green lights new Pirelli rear tyre from Silverstone

The FIA's World Motor Sport Council has approved the introduction from next week's British Grand Prix of Pirelli's new more durable rear tyre. Pirelli developped the new tyre, which has a modified construction featuring a higher vertical stiffness, over an extended period that started last year, and it was sampled by all drivers in free practice last weekend in Austria. But the decision to move forward with the introduction of the more robust and safer rear tyre was taken after the failures that befell Aston Martin's Lance Stroll and Red Bull's Max Verstappen in Baku last month. Compounds will remain unchanged, but the tyre's augmented stiffness at high loads will allow it to be run at...
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